Russellville senior Alex Greene was offered a NCAA Division I track and field scholarship to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville on Saturday.

Greene said he intends to sign the letter in front of his school sometime within the next few weeks.

“There’s some planning that has to go on with that,” he said. “Coaches have to contact everyone and it’s not entirely in my control. I hope to be able to do it within the next week.”

For Greene, it was the U of A or bust. The student-athlete said he had his sights set on the university from the onset — with good reason: the Hogs won their 41st national championship in track last year.

“Honestly, that [Arkansas] was the only college I was interested in running at,” Greene said.

“I had other schools looking at me, but that was the only one I wanted to go to at all. It’s a chance for me to be on a great team and a chance for me to win a national championship.”

Greene said the school has been in contact with him since January.

“They watched me run one day and we started emailing each other,” he said.

“They had me come up, set up and talk with them. Then, this Saturday they gave me the letter of intent. It’s sitting in my car right now, unsigned.”

Greene will run the 100-meter dash, 200 and the 400 relay for the Razorbacks. For Greene, education come first, but he admitted he had aspirations of one day running on the professional level.

If that’s the case, Greene chose the right school to help him achieve that goal.

Since 1984, the Razorbacks men’s track and field teams have won 40 NCAA national championships, including 11 cross country, 19 indoor track and 10 outdoor track along with 37 Southwest Conference Championships and 38 SEC titles.

The Razorbacks have won five national triple crowns, which are achieved by winning NCAA titles in cross country, inddor and outdoor track in the same school year.

Arkansas and the University of Texax-El Paso are the only schools to have ever won the National Triple Crown.

Brett Wilkins and Caleb Short each had two RBI for Danville, which took a 3-0 lead after the first inning and 5-1 advantage after two.

Grant Cathey was walked to start the first inning, then Wilkins singled to score Cathey. Short then blasted a home run over center field, and the Little Johns were on their way.

Danville will host Dover today.

Golf

Surtevall wins medalist honors, Suns finish 3rd

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Sophomore Rebecka Surtevall carded a final-day 79 to finish with a two-round score of 158 (+14) and earned individual medalist honors by one stroke as the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns golf team finished in third place at the Candlewood Suites Classic at St. Joseph Country Club on Tuesday.

Surtevall rallied from two strokes back to pass Southwest Minnesota State’s Krista Weiszhaar, who finished one stroke behind Surtevall in second place.

The Golden Suns combined to shoot 334 on day two, a five-stroke improvement from the first day of play. Arkansas Tech finished six strokes behind overall champion Minnesota State-Mankato and four strokes behind second-place Augustana.

Taylor Kline turned in a top-10 finish for the Golden Suns, tying for 10th after improving two strokes to 82 on day two. Megan Jeffery tied for 14th after also improving her opening day score by two strokes, finishing with a round of 170 after shooting rounds of 86 and 84. Shelby Jones and Megan Kelley both finished tied for 34th place, shooting rounds of 181.

The Golden Suns will play in one more spring tournament, the First Federal Bank Invitational hosted by Henderson State University in Branson, Mo. on April 8-9, before traveling to Hot Springs to compete in the Great American Conference championship on April 14-16.

Tennis

Suns home match moved

Arkansas Tech tennis coach Abby Davis announced the rescheduling of several upcoming matches due to the threat of inclement weather.

Today’s scheduled match with Ouachita Baptist will now be played at 1 p.m. Sunday at Chartwells Women’s Sports Complex. The Suns’ scheduled match against Harding on Thursday will now begin at 1 p.m. Friday in Searcy. ATU’s scheduled road match at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, originally scheduled for Friday, will now be played at 3 p.m. April 11 in Pine Bluff.

After the Golden Suns’ match with Ouachita Baptist, Arkansas Tech will host one more match this season, on April 13 against Southern Nazarene.

Saturday in Ada, Okla., Bohdana Sardak rolled to a 6-2, 6-3 victory at No. 1 singles, Maria Aleman picked up a 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 3 singles, and Laura Sanchez won a straight-set decision at No. 4 singles as the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns picked up a 7-2 win over East Central.